Robert B. Parker's Bull River by Robert Knott

Author:Robert Knott [Knott, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Western
ISBN: 9780399165269
Google: tg1h7383ZmcC
Amazon: 0399165266
Barnesnoble: 0399165266
Goodreads: 18079589
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

46

“He asked me where the closest train station was located,” Buster said.

“What’d you tell him?” Virgil said.

“Well, Navarro,” Buster said. “That’s the closest.”

Virgil looked to Shep.

“Navarro’s a day’s ride,” Shep said. “Small place, small depot.”

Virgil, Hawkins, Shep, and I stepped out of the Oracle Hotel and started back to the jail. La Mesilla didn’t do much in the way of mourning Vernon Talmadge. The streets were crowded with honyocks and rabble-rousers making their way from one joint to the next.

“How do you think Strode,” Hawkins said, “or Jedediah, or whatever his name is, knew to look for Dalton here in La Mesilla?”

“Hard to know,” Virgil said.

“But he knew,” Hawkins said.

“Damn sure did,” I said.

“But how did he know?” Hawkins said. “And of all places, he locates the sonofabitch in this hotel?”

“They are brothers,” I said.

“They are,” Virgil said.

“Together as orphans,” I said. “Close, or were close.”

“They got history.”

“They do,” I said.

“Like wolves,” Virgil said.

“They are.”

“You can only separate them so much,” Virgil said.

“They find each other,” I said.

“Like now,” Virgil said.

“Yep.”

“More like a couple of coyotes, if you ask me,” Hawkins said.

We stopped on the boardwalk and waited as a dirty white Percheron pulling a heavy wagonload full of barrels of beer maneuvered around the corner.

“No matter,” Virgil said. “One thing is for certain. Orphans, wolves, coyotes, whatever, we got brother dogging brother.”

“And they got a day’s jump on us,” I said.

“That they do,” Virgil said.

After the beer wagon cleared, we crossed the street and made our way up the boardwalk, heading for the jail.

“Day’s jump or not,” Hawkins said. “Now what?”

“I can put together a posse in the morning,” Shep said. “See what we might be able to find.”

“Good luck with that,” Hawkins said.

“Worth a look,” Shep said.

“’Spose it is, Shep,” Hawkins said. “But these two brothers have proved hard to find. Probably have better luck looking for renegade Mescalero.”

“Least I can get down to Navarro Station,” Shep said. “See what we can find out in that direction. See if anybody knows anything or has seen them.”

“Where do you think they’re headed, Cole?” Hawkins said.

“Everett?” Virgil said.

We walked for a moment before I answered.

“Mexico,” I said.

We continued to walk. Virgil didn’t say anything until Hawkins posed him with the question.

“You think that, too?” Hawkins said.

“Do,” Virgil said.

“Where they came from,” I said.

“It is,” Virgil said.

“It’s what they know,” I said.

“It is.”

“Big damn country, Mexico,” Hawkins said. “Might not ever find them.”

Nobody said anything for a bit while we walked. We passed a tiny gambling shack with two gals out front offering their goods, but we paid them no mind.

“Good Lord,” Hawkins said. “You ain’t thinking you’d angle to get Alejandro to show you where he was talking, are you?”

“Maybe,” Virgil said.

“Goddamn,” Hawkins said.

“Mexico is my hunch,” Virgil said. “Everett’s, too. And a good hunch, considering. But I want to make sure and check the train records at Navarro Station. See who went north and who went south before we do anything.”

“And if they went south?” Hawkins said.

“We follow,” Virgil said.

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